Quote(s) of the Day.....

....as stolen directly from Mike Todd:

The Prophetic Imagination

"Empires live by numbness. Empires, in their militarism, expect numbness about the human cost of war. Corporate economies expect blindness to the cost in terms of poverty and exploitation. Governments and societies of domination go to great lengths to keep the numbness intact... Thus compassion that might seem simply as generous goodwill is in fact criticism of the systems, forces, and ideologies that produce the hurt." (p. 88-89)

and...

"Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of the present order. It can manage charity and good intentions, but it has no way to resist solidarity with pain or grief." (p. 91)

Mike seems to have shovelled his way to the bookshelf. And I am grateful.

Our Little Emmy....

.....All Grown Up and On MTV

Buy Nothing Day

Quote of the Day....

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
— Jacques Prévert

Alice Walker Quote....

"I have learned to accept the fact that we risk disappointment, disillusionment, even despair, every time we act. Every time we decide to believe the world can be better. Every time we decide to trust others to be as noble as we think they are. And that there might be years during which our grief is equal to, or even greater than, our hope. The alternative, however, not to act, and therefore to miss experiencing other people at their best, reaching toward their fullness, has never appealed to me."

Quote of the Day.....

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
— Napoleon Bonaparte

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
— Garth Henrichs

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.
— Anonymous

Quote of the Day....

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Martin Luther King Jr. (as quoted by Robson Jewitt)

Quote of the Day....

"But I want first of all to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life.... to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony."
Anne Lindbergh

Quote from Waving or Drowning....

We are the people we've been waiting for.